Answer: D) Because of the rich natural resources which made the Sacramento Valley a ‘Garden of Eden,’ Native Americans established permanent villages there 8,000 years ago.
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The meaning behind that simile is that ‘they’ are getting tons of gold like they were corn grains which if you’ve seen them, there’s a lot in just one corn. So basically those people were getting a lot of gold.